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He turns his head and looks over at me.

My heart skips a beat, literally.

Today is the day I tell him, I keep reminding myself.

I HAVE to tell him. Otherwise, he'll never know, I tell myself.

"Uh, duh! But that's STILL not a reason why you have to tell him, you know," says my friend, Sammi.

I guess I WASN'T talking to myself, after all.

"But I HAVE to," I exclaim.

"Or what? You'll never see him again? YOU'RE ELEVEN, LADY! It's not like either of you is going off to join the army or anything. And DON'T tell me that it's meant to be, or any of that crap. You're just going to make it worse!"

"Be a little louder. I don't think they heard you on Pluto."

"Well, they didn't, unless they did, but I doubt that we will ever know."

Leave it to Sammi to take everything and make it into a long lecture.

"Also, if there was life over there, it may not be the same type of life that we have here. For example, all of life that we know of survive only in conditions with water, but maybe they don't need water to live. Also, they may not have hearing, but other senses unknown to us. But anyway, what were we talking about again?"

Anita and Sarah are staring at her, but I couldn't care less.

"Uh oh," Sammi says. She points behind them, at me, making my way to his desk.

My heart has fallen out of my chest due to it hammering so hard.

He's even looking at me like that's what's happened.

I can't take it anymore.

"Do you like me?" I blurt it out, and wait for every eye in the room to turn to me.

He does something unexpected, but completely understandable, which may be hard to understand.

"Yes. We ARE friends, right?" But time froze on the yes. As far as I care, he said yes, so now the Earth can explode in peace.

By lunch, I'm sitting in the the principal's office. 

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Not exactly how it really happened, but this was as close as I could get.

I've had to change a LOT to make sure it didn't reflect life TOO closely.

I wrote this a long time ago, so forgive any frequent changes, not that they matter.